Morphine

Morph

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Action

Drug form

Pharmaceutically pure morphine is a white powder. In tablets it will appear as blue (10mg) or pink (20mg) pills by the brand name Sevredol, or as slow-release tablets under the brand name MST Continus, which come in brown (10mg), purple (30mg), orange (60mg), grey (100mg) or green (200mg).

For injection, morphine sulphate comes as a clear liquid in ampoules. Other injectable products include Cyclimorph (which contains cyclizine) and Omnopon, which contains the drug papaveretum, a mixture of opium alkaloids.

Drug effects

Desired:

As for heroin (except the 'rush' from injecting morphine is not as strong), euphoria, relaxation, decreased anxiety.

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Where does it come from?

Little illicit morphine finds its way into Britain, but what is found on the illicit market in this country has probably been diverted from the pharmaceutical industry, pharmacies, or GPs prescriptions.

Helping services

It is rare to find a user dependent on morphine alone unless they have acquired this dependency as part of treatment for some medical condition. In such cases they will probably be treated either by their GP or by drug dependency clinics. Other regular drug injectors using heroin or other opiates may use morphine when they can get hold of it - in which case drug counselling agencies may be able to help them.